HMS Firedrake (H79)

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HMS Firedrake was an F class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She sank 2 U boats, in 1939 and 1940. Firedrake served as leader of Mid-Ocean Escort Force group B-7 from early 1942. Escort Group B-7 escorted convoys HX-186, ON-94, HX-192, ON-106, SC-91, ON-117, SC-103, ON-142, and HX-216^[1] before Firedrake was torpedoed by U-211 while escorting convoy ON-153 on 17 December 1942.^[2]

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• Milner, Marc (1985). North Atlantic Run. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-450-0. 
• Rohwer, J. and Hummelchen, G. (1992). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-105-X. 

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v • d • e E and F class destroyer Echo · Eclipse · Electra · Encounter · Escapade · Escort · Esk · Exmouth · Express Fame · Faulknor · Fearless · Firedrake · Forester · Foresight · Fortune · Foxhound · Fury Preceded by: C and D class · Followed by: G and H class List of destroyers of the Royal Navy

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